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not much to talk about really bar Stuart Pearce whinging and Jack Hunt being injured, so lets talk about the Big Units that have graced the national game. we can talk about other things too if something happens i guess. perhaps pardew will be sacked.

I think clubs are already realising that it can be a good bit of PR. City getting lots of plaudits for keeping prices down despite selling out every week, but in reality they're fudging the figures a bit. Average season ticket price is aruond £560, which is still very competitive, and they keep the top-end season ticket prices down, but the £299 season tickets which get the headlines are actually limited to 500 people.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice touch, and the owners are generally doing a great job of keeping tickets affordable to regulars, but the survey paints it out to be a lot more affordable than it is. Average individual match ticket costs are around £40. How they're getting a day out for £29 is beyond me, i suspect it's for a very rare Catagory C/D game or something. Last time i needed a match ticket direct from the club i was quoted £51.

is the proportion of tickets sold at the highest and lowest prices at the clubs. It's all well and good saying you can get a match ticket, cherry brandy and moon pie for a nickel at Newcastle or will be brutally shaken by the ankles once within 10ft of an Arsenal turnstile but it means sod all if you've no idea of the numbers involved. How many people get those cheapest days out?

Chelsea ain't cheap anywhere by any stretch of the imagination, but their least forgiving standard adult ticket price is for a section that makes up a relatively small part of the ground. I imagine that is true of most places.

and mistakenly overheard his name as beng 'raymond'. Called him Raymond all nght, pretty sure i even said RAYMUNDO at one point. didn't understand why his mates were killing themselevs laughing until my friend pointed it out much later.

i'm sure all fellow football enthusiasts will join me hoping Cape Verde are drawn against either Burkina Faso or Ethiopia, thus guaranteeing an African team in the World Cup that've never qualified before

But of course it turns out that if you play anything other than 10-men-behind-the-ball McLeish-style shit it means all he's doing is blocking shots and making last-ditch tackles. We tried to play him in a high line and my god was he fucking awful.

so it got really awkward and eventually the photographers had to pack up and leave and it started getting dark and they were still in that parking lot staring at each other with their hands twitching slightly every now and then

sounds quite promising. we've already got 1 really tall striker but i wouldn't mind another. this is the sickest hat trick i've ever seen at league one level or below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5tN9hJGxMverbal?

Good player, though. Thought he could've broken through first team this year, but dougie then went and bought beckford and apparently wants another striker. Really weird, because he is a very promising player. and isn't just your standard 'big unit'.